July 28, 2009
Comments Off on Lying & Quitting: The New republican Standard
About once in a generation comes a politician that wraps up the entirety of the political essence of the times. For me, that politician was Richard Milhouse Nixon. He combined a lying, ass-covering attitude with deceit and political intrigue. He was the encapsulation of what the republican party was in the late 1960s and 1970s. In short, he lied, got caught and then quit politics before he had to pay the piper.
For this generation, that example is Sarah Palin. She does not have the gravitas that Nixon did, nor are her lies of the magnitude that his were but then she never really had the chance to be any bigger than what she was. She ran for Vice-President but on a ticket that was doomed to failure in the shadow of the George Bush years. Like I said, she never had a chance. But that never stopped her from lying out of her ass at every available opportunity and, when the going got to be tough because of her behavior in office, she up and quit. Unlike Nixon who sought obscurity for a long time afterwards, Palin has made it clear that her quitting just means she is a fighter (whatever the hell that means) and that she will be speaking up on issues as she deems it appropriate to do so. In other wqrds, she’s not really going away – she’s just getting out of the line of fire by giving up her governorship.
She had a big ride in the two and a half years she was in the limelight. She managed to rack up a body of lies that is quite impressive. I was stunned when I read an account of them. I knew about them all but to read them back-to-back was astonishing. Among the lies that Sarah whipped on her adoring fans were these:
- Sarah lied all the way through the Trooper-gate incident including lies about why her public safety commissioner, Walt Monegan got shitcanned.
- Sarah lied about the Bridge To Nowhere claiming that she refused the money for it when, in fact, she lobbied extensively for it.
- Sarah lied about the firing of Wasilla’s police chief and the town librarian.
- Sarah lied about the infamous gas pipeline she was promoting in Alaska.
- Sarah lied about the collection of clothes that were bought for her by the RNC
- Sarah lied about the various ethics reports she claimed had cleared of wrongdoing when they found she had violated the law.
Sarah lied about so many things of small and big importance that it became almost a full time job to keep track of them all. She does Richard Nixon proud. Her quitting, in my opinion, is the perfect tribute to Nixon and the body of lies that he told in his many years of public office holding. Te say that she will be missed is, well, a lie I won’t be telling.
link: http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/07/the-odd-lies-of-sarah-palin-a-roundup.html
March 19, 2009
Comments Off on Karl Rove: Open Mouth, Out Comes A Lie
One of the good things about Fox Noise hiring Karl Rove as one of their selected rightwing apologists is that almost every time he opens his mouth another lie pops out. He’s a modern day Henry Kissinger; a guy who doesn’t know the truth from a lie and says whatever jumps into his head that he thinks will make him look good. He’s a pathological liar in the mold of Lee Atwater and Richard Nixon.
Over the last week, Karl has been busy rewriting history to make himself look better but, unfortunately, the facts keep catching up with him. The first incident came when Bill O hit him with an unrehearsed question whether he had ever threatened anybody who ever challenged him while he was working in the White House. Karl lied and said he had not but Karl couldn’t keep a straight face when he said it and you knew it was a lie as soon as the denial spilled out of his mouth. Karl Rove saying that he never threatened anybody in retaliation is like a male dog alleging it never peed on a fire hydrant. Unfuckingbelievable. Karl Rove is today’s political hitman and everyone knows it. Even Karl Rove.
Valerie Plame Wilson took the hit from Rove when he exposed her secret posting in the CIA in retaliation for her husband’s exposing the lies of George Bush about the Iraq War. Alabama Governor Don Siegelman was a victim of Rove’s courtesy of corrupt and partisan US Attorneys who initiated a political coup that ruined his political career all because he was a Democrat in a red state. Even before he was a White House flunky Rove was a master of the smear campaign as witness to Ann Richards in 1994 and John McCain in 2000. There are countless other episodes of political depravity and bottom feeding that Rove has been behind since he crawled out from under that sandstone rock in Texas back in the 1970’s but the ones above are sufficient testament to Rove’s lies.
The second incident came when Rove took a shot at White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs because Gibbs dared to poke fun at Dick Cheney’s lie-filled interview on CNN saying that Rush Limbaugh must have been busy so they got the second most popular republican to appear. Waaaaaa, waaaaa, waaaaa. This faux outrage is just more NeoCon bullshit from the mouthpiece of the right. NeoCon liars like Karl have no trouble calling people Marxists, Doofuses, or Snobs but let anyone say something about a NeoCon sacred cow and all the crocodile tears come out and the joke maker is accused of being a “junior high smart mouth.” Well, Karl, better to be a junior high smart mouth than a pathological liar or master hypocrite like you.
Rove is trying to position himself as an above the fray political commentator and that would be OK if he didn’t have so much history that makes him out to be a liar every time he opens his fat maw. The crap he whines about Democrats or Liberals doing is that very same shit he did and thought he got away with or even denies doing in the first place. Quite frankly it goes past hypocrisy and starts getting into the category of lying and actually believing the lies you are telling but then that’s a NeoCon trait and I really shouldn’t be surprised that Karl does this. Reagan did it. Gimpy Bush did it. Chimpy Bush did it. Lee Atwater did it. Nixon really did it. Agnew certainly did it. Kissinger did it. Gingrich did it. Cheney did it. McCain did it. Palin did it. Limbaugh did it. And there are a few hundred more NeoCon liars out there who have taken one position and then flip-flopped over to another position and then lied about the flip-flop to everyone within ear shot. Karl is actually in pretty elite company as one of the pre-eminent pathological liars of this generation. It must make his mother so proud.
links: http://thinkprogress.org/2009/03/14/roves-threatening-record/
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/03/18/rove-gibbs-junior-high/
Black & White and Cardinal Red All Over 